“Almost every one of my jokes was taken as a serious statement, even when I asked the majority whip to whip me” — Kathy Griffin in the Washington Post on her trip to Capitol Hill to lobby for gays in the military . . . “He wanted to be Kurt [Cobain], then he wanted to be [Marilyn] Manson, and now he wants to be Perez Hilton. What’s wrong with just being Billy?” — Courtney Love in Rolling Stone on her former friend Billy Corgan and his relationship with Jessica Simpson.